Job 24
1 “(Why does Almighty [God] not set a time when he will judge [evil people]?/I do not understand why Almighty [God does] not set a time when he will judge [evil people].) [RHQ] Those who know him never [RHQ] see him do that!
Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?
2 [Some evil people] remove the markers of boundaries of [other people’s] land, [in order to steal their land]; they seize/steal [other people’s] sheep and put them in their own pastures.
Some remoue the land marks, that rob the flockes and feede thereof.
3 [Some] (take away/steal) the donkeys that belong to orphans, and they take widow’s oxen to guarantee that the widows will pay back the money that they loaned to those widows.
They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.
4 [Some] shove poor people off the road (OR, prevent poor people from (obtaining their rights/being treated justly)), and they force poor people to find places to hide from them.
They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
5 The result is that poor people have to search for food in the desert like wild donkeys do.
Behold, others as wilde asses in the wildernesse, goe forth to their businesse, and rise early for a praye: the wildernesse giueth him and his children foode.
6 The poor people harvest left-over grain in other people’s fields, and gather grapes from vineyards that belong to wicked men.
They reape his prouision in the fielde, but they gather the late vintage of the wicked.
7 During the night they have nothing to cover their bodies, nothing to keep them warm.
They cause the naked to lodge without garment, and without couering in the colde.
8 When it rains on the mountains, the poor people become very wet, so they huddle under the rock ledges to be protected [from the rain].
They are wet with the showres of the moutaines, and they imbrace the rocke for want of a couering.
9 [Some evil men] snatch infants away from their widowed mothers [SYN], and they say ‘I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.’
They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
10 But the poor people walk around with no clothes on; they are hungry while they are working to carry [other people’s] bundles of grain [to the places where their grain will be threshed].
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and take the glening from the hungrie.
11 Poor people press olives to make [olive] oil; they tread on grapes [to make juice for wine], but [they are not allowed to drink any of it when] they become thirsty.
They that make oyle betweene their walles, and treade their wine presses, suffer thirst.
12 In the cities, people who are wounded and dying cry out [to God for help], but God does not heed their prayers.
Men cry out of the citie, and the soules of the slayne cry out: yet God doth not charge them with follie.
13 Some wicked people avoid the light [because they do evil things in the dark]; they do not walk on roads that are lighted.
These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.
14 Murderers steal things during the night, and then they arise before dawn in order that they may [go out again and] kill needy [DOU] people.
The murtherer riseth earely and killeth the poore and the needie: and in the night he is as a theefe.
15 Those who want to commit adultery wait for twilight/evening; they say ‘I do not want anyone to see me,’ so they keep their faces covered.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.
16 It is during the night that robbers break into houses [to steal things], but during the day they hide because they want to avoid [being seen in] the light.
They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
17 All of those [people] want to do their evil things at night, not in the morning [when it is light], because they are not afraid of [the things that happen during the] night that terrify others.”
But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.
18 “[But it is wicked people] who are swept/carried away by floods, and God curses the land that they own, and no one goes to work in their vineyards.
He is swift vpon the waters: their portion shalbe cursed in the earth: he will not behold the way of the vineyardes.
19 Just like the snow melts away when it is hot and there is no rain, those who have sinned disappear into the place where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
As the dry ground and heate consume the snowe waters, so shall the graue the sinners. (Sheol h7585)
20 Not even their mothers remember them now; wicked people are destroyed like trees that are cut down, and maggots eat their corpses.
The pitifull man shall forget him: the worme shall feele his sweetenes: he shalbe no more remembered, and the wicked shalbe broke like a tree.
21 They mistreat women who have been unable to give birth to children and women who no longer have children [to take care of them], and they never do good things for widows.
He doth euil intreat ye barren, that doeth not beare, neither doeth he good to the widowe.
22 But God, by his power, gets rid of mighty/influential people. God acts and causes the wicked people to die.
He draweth also the mighty by his power, and when he riseth vp, none is sure of life.
23 God allows them to think that they are secure and safe, but he is watching [MTY] them all the time.
Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.
24 They prosper for a little while, and then [suddenly] they are gone; they disappear like weeds wither and die; they are like [SIM] stalks of grain that have been cut off.
They are exalted for a litle, but they are gone, and are brought lowe as all others: they are destroyed, and cut off as the toppe of an eare of corne.
25 If this is not true, is there [RHQ] anyone who will show that I am a liar and prove that what I have said is not true?”
But if it be not so, where is he? or who wil proue me a lyer, and make my words of no value?
